The Growth of Slavery

Question 1

Choose the word or phrase that best completes each sentence.1. Before white Europeans began bringing Africans to the Americas, American Indians sometimes enslaved ✔ other American IndianswhitesAfricans.2. American Indians typically did✔ did not consider enslaved American Indians to be racially inferior.3. The first Europeans in the Americas bought and sold enslaved American Indians but came to ✔ preferreject enslaved Africans.

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other American Indians; Selection 1: other American Indians; Selection 2: did not; Selection 3: prefer

Question 2

Among the “five civilized tribes,” African American slavery was

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not uncommon.

Question 3

In general, American Indians treated enslaved Africans

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in a more humane way than was common among white slaveholders.

Question 4

Which of the following were true about American Indian slavery in the West in the time before the arrival of white settlers? Check all of the boxes that apply.

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American Indians of the West traded in enslaved American Indians.; Strong tribes in the region captured and traded weaker American Indians to the Spanish.

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